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Wednesday, June 04, 2003
Naga cops ‘switched’ drugs with fake ones
By Rene H. Martel
SURPRISED by the laboratory result, Inuboran Barangay Councilor Babelonia Capangpangan ais accusing Naga town police of switching the two packs of shabu she confiscated from a relative, with fake ones.
That is why the result of the examination made on the two packs was “negative” even when the suspect, who was released “to the custody of Naga, Cebu Mayor Ferdinand Chiong hours after the arrest, was a known drug pusher and user in the place, Capangpangan said.
It was Capangpangan and her brother who arrested last Friday Brenda Selim, a niece, after she (Capangpangan) saw two packs of suspected shabu fall from Selim, who was quarreling with her mother.
Capangpang, who filed complaints of direct assault and grave oral defamation against Selim, is planning to sue the four policemen on duty at the time she turned Selim and the evidence over to the Naga police.
She identified PO1 Tiburcio Barangan, SPO1 Arnulfo Gemota, SPO2 Diorito Alejandro and a still-to-be-identified policeman as possible respondents of the administrative complaint she is planning to file.
Sun.Star tried getting the side of the three policemen, but they were not available.
Insp. Eugeniano Alfante, Naga police chief, said in a radio dyLA interview that he was sure that when the two small packs reached his hand, no switching ever happened.
Alfante, though, received the packs only the next day, Saturday, after Selim was released upon the intervention of Chiong, whom Capangpangan said was tricked by Selim’s good acting.
Chiong earlier said he was willing to face the consequences of what he did, saying he felt pity for Selim, who was still wearing damp clothes when he visited her and whose child was having a fever.
He requested the police after Selim’s mother Rebecca sought the help of Inuboran leader Joe Geraldez who, in turn, pleaded for the family.
What Chiong did triggered an investigation because only the court could have placed the suspect under the custody of somebody, but only after a complaint shall have been filed.
Selim is currently detained at the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center after failing to post bail on the complaints filed by Capangpangan.
(June 4, 2003 issue)
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